michelangelo and the sistine chapel
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Lecture from April 22, 2011 to Dr. Laura Amrhein's Intro to Art class @ UALRTRANSCRIPT
Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
Title: David
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1501-1504
Source/ Museum: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
Medium: Marble
Size: height 17' (5.18 m)
Palazzo VecchioPiazza della Signoria
Title: Interior, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Itlay
Date: Built 1475-1480. Ceiling painted 1508-1512; wall behind altar painted 1536-1541
Title: Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Vatican, Rome, Italy. 1508-1512
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1508-1512
Diagram of the fresco decoration of the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel comprises frescoes and a set of tapestries. They are the work of different artists and are part of a number of different commissions, some of which were in conflict with each other.
Title: The Creation of Adam. Portion of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican, Rome, Italy. 1508-1512
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1508-1512
Title: Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1508-1512
Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924 (24.197.2)
Medium: red chalk
Size: 11 3/8 x 8 7/16" (28.9 x 21.4 cm)
Title: The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1534–1541
Medium: fresco
Title: The Last Judgment, (detail with self-portrait), Sistine Chapel
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: 1534-1541
Source/ Museum: n/a
Medium: fresco
Size: n/a
Casena as Minos (Midas?)
Angels trumpets and the Archangel Michael
St Bartholomew holds his own skin-- St. Lawrence with grate
• The boatman Charon (s)
• At the bottom of the painting the boatman Charon is ferrying the damned into hell.
• Charon is the mythical boatman of Roman and Greek mythology who ferried the damned to hell.
